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Six times so far this year, someone has climbed out on top of a moving subway train and died. That’s one more than in 2023; the stats underlying those totals signal a danger that is here to stay.
The MTA is buying 940 new train cars, with 10 open-gangway models, under the 2015 and 2020 capital plans. The design may change, because the contract for the train cars is still open, according to ...
It plans to spend $52.4 million on 10 open gangway cars of two different designs to be used in a single train. The pilot project is part of the authority's 2015-2019 capital plan.
We were squeezed into the subway operator’s cab of a test train sitting at the Kings Highway station in Brooklyn. Ahead of us was nothing but perfectly straight, unobstructed express track.
The new MTA chief's plan to fix the subway 01:57 "An incredibly ambitious goal" The MTA's new transit chief has an ambitious strategy to address subway accessibility.
It reported that 2,556 people rode “outside of train cars” this year through September, but the vast majority of those cases, officials said, occurred between cars, not on top of them. (In ...
Kids don't let kids surf the subway -- that's the message from the MTA and the Mayor's office, which announced Tuesday a new campaign designed by students at Manhattan's High School of Art and Design.